Google Talk - AIM to interop this year
Announced more than a year ago, a Google staffer blogs Google and AOL are still making progress on federating their text instant messaging networks. via Google Operating System.
Moving text across an xmpp gateway is easy. Areas they are sure to work on (or ignore):
- Avatar sharing
- Alias sharing
- Emoticon interop (and the over-the-top extensions)
- Presence sharing
- Privacy policy harmonization
- Dispute resolution policy and procedures
- SPIM (Spam over instant messaging) and SPIT (Spam over Internet telephony) prevention
- Directory lookup and user discovery interop
- Web link integration (can an AIM link launch GTalk, and vice versa)
- Encryption interop
Voice and video interop are likely out of scope in the first stage.
When the first stages of Microsoft+Yahoo! and GTalk+AIM IM interops reach completion, we'll see how important interop is to users. If it is, there will be huge pressure on Skype to open up gateways.
The other point of pressure on Skype to open: success of click-to-Skype advertising. eBay won't want to walk away from sales generated by AIM, GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, QQ, Live Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Office Communicator users who want to talk to an eBay seller who uses Skype.
Written by Skype Journal on January 15th, 2007 with
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